Concise and versatile, the ms package converts various time formats (milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc.) into milliseconds and vice versa. This tiny utility simplifies time manipulation, making it easier to define timeouts, delays, and intervals in a human-readable way, rather than directly dealing with raw millisecond values. Ideal for configuration settings and logging human-friendly time durations.
The npm package ms has sporadic releases. Initial development was active from 2011-2017, with occasional releases. After 2017, releases became very infrequent, with only a few versions published in 2019 and 2020. No releases have occurred since December 2020, and no releases so far in 2025.
The npm package "ms" experienced significant download growth from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking in June and July of 2025. Download numbers generally exceeded 900 million per month, surpassing 1 billion in several instances. September 2025 data is incomplete with only around 315 million downloads.
